"The preteen anti-drug program aims to teach students how to resist peer pressure, but it's gone out of fashion as of late. Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to bring it back.
"D.A.R.E. is I think, as I indicated, the best-remembered anti-drug program today. In recent years, people have not paid much attention to that message, but they are ready to hear it again," Sessions said while speaking at D.A.R.E.'s training conference.
But there's a problem with his plan: D.A.R.E. doesn't appear to work. A surgeon general report in 2001 found that students who went through the program were just as likely to use drugs as those who didn't.
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A 2000 study by the American Psychological Association and a report to Congress from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service in 1998 both came to the same conclusion".
"D.A.R.E. is I think, as I indicated, the best-remembered anti-drug program today. In recent years, people have not paid much attention to that message, but they are ready to hear it again," Sessions said while speaking at D.A.R.E.'s training conference.
But there's a problem with his plan: D.A.R.E. doesn't appear to work. A surgeon general report in 2001 found that students who went through the program were just as likely to use drugs as those who didn't.
SEE MORE: Nevada Legalized Recreational Weed But Was Way Short On Distributors
A 2000 study by the American Psychological Association and a report to Congress from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service in 1998 both came to the same conclusion".
